KingSpec P2U38-2T PCIe SSD 2TB Review

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Introduction

KingSpec P2U38-2T - 2TB PCIe SSD
Throttling up towards 4 Gigabyte per second 

Every now and then we receive a request from (mostly) Asia based manufacturers to review their products. Most of the time we have to decline due to reasons often related to my very limited available time. That does create a conundrum and a certain offset, meaning all the attention and media coverage goes out to the big names in the industry only, the NAND related reviews always come from Intel, Samsung, Micron, OCZ and so on. So I made the decision that every now and then we'll pick a small player in the market. That often results into product you'll be hard-pressed to find but hey, we like to have a broader view and also give the smaller guys a chance. Today that will happen as we will review a product from China based KingSpec also known as A-Spec. KingSpec is a manufacturer of SSD and focus on all kinds of SSD in the market:

Consumer market:

  • 2.5" SATA III, mSATA, M.2 for desktop , laptop and ultrabook.
  • Old drives for old laptop: 2.5" IDE, 1.8" IDE, 1.8" ZIF, CF, MicroSATA

Enterprise market:

  • High end: PCIE3.0, PCIE2.0, SAS.
  • extended grade SSDs (operating temp.: -40~85°C)

KingSpec Electronics Technology Co., Ltd. has two brands: (KingSpec and Aspec), KingSpec is for consumer grade SSD, Aspec is intended for enterprise solutions or special development grade SSD.

We review the P2U38-2T, a 2TB PCIe SSD from them. This puppy is rated to be capable at performance numbers that reach the 3 to 4 GB per second threshold. This PCIe SSD unit has is based on an internal RAID solution with separated mSATA SSD units. Tied onto the PCI Express 3.0 slot and armed with a 2TB volume sizes, this product is here to command & conquer as we indeed measures number closing in on 3 GB per second and there and there it even touches the 4 GB per second marker. Albeit this PCI-Express 3.0 SSD primarily is aimed at high end servers, professional workstations and perhaps maybe high end game stations their products overall are also made for rugged environments within industrial embedded computing (products that still work under -40~85°C).

The P2U38-2T that is tested today, really is enterprise class ... but have a peek at the product being tested today first.


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